LAPD

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  5/31/2022
  

  Los Angeles's Response to 1992 Riots Remains Model of How Not to Do It

  by V.N. Trinh

  The strategy of encouraging private business development, without seriously reforming police, fixing public schools, or addressing poverty, proved unequal to the task of promoting justice in LA. 

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• SOURCE: Protean
  2/25/2022
  

  Broken Homes of the Drug War

  by David Helps

  Rather than a mistake or an isolated instance of excess, a notoriously brutal and destructive LAPD raid on an apartment complex in 1988 should be seen as part of a political attack on the city's Black poor, enabled by cultural stereotypes of families of color. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/22/2021
  

  George Holliday Dies at 61, Taped LAPD Beating of Rodney King

  George Holliday's fortuitous purchase of a camcorder inaugurated the era of civilian video evidence of police abuse, though accountability has followed only rarely. 

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• 6/28/2020
  

  Liberal Reform Threatens to Expand the Police Power--Just as it did in the Past

  by Max Felker-Kantor

  The history of liberal law-and-order reveals that procedural reforms implemented on top of a structure of policing that has been empowered to protect property and control “disorder” are not only doomed to fail but will produce the conditions for more protest and resistance. 

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• SOURCE: The Independent
  4-29-14
  

  LA confidential: The world's most storied police force opens up its photography archive - and the result is worthy of Hollywood

  "The LAPD photographs were originally documents... but if you select them carefully today, they become a piece of art."